Weighing and packaging apparatus



May 30, 1950 L.. R. MusKAT WEIGHING AND PACKAGING APPARATUS Filed Nov.21, 1946 position. As best appears in Fig. 1 the lower end of this chuteextends into the spout I3.

The chute I6 is pivotally mounted at its upper end at I6p and issupported by an adjustable brace I6b whereby the inclination of thechute may be varied.

The lower chute is so pivotally mounted at its upper end at I9 that theupper'end of its bottom terminates at a point on the circle of the weighbucket rearwardly of that partition which normally occupies asubstantially vertical posiavoid breaking due to impact with each other.v Also, it will be noted from Fig. 1, that the upper chute isconsiderably shorter in length than the 1 lower one, so that adifference of flow down said tion, as best shown in Fig. l. The bottomend of said chute opens into the back of the spout I3 in a plane spacedrearwardly from that 0f the' bottom end of the upper chute. The chuteI'I isn supported at a point spaced from its pivot I9 from a part of thecasing by a brace 2|, that is adjustable in length whereby theinclination of the chute may be varied. Q

When the top compartment II 0f the bucket has received a weighed outamount of the prod-4 uct I2 therein, as appears in Fig. 1, suitableymechanism of the weighing machine operatesv automatically to impart astep of rotary movement (in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1) to thebucket to the dumping position of said compartment and to bring anothercompartment into filling position. As the bucket is herein shownashaving three compartments therein, each step of rotary movement of thebucket will be 120. Compartmental dumping buckets of this general typeare conventional and are not claimed per se in this application.

In this step movement, as the advancing partit-ion I0 passes thehorizontal plane, the product starts to flow from the bucket compartmentintoV the upper chute IB as appears in Fig. 3 and which chute directsthe product stream owing downwardly thereon into the top of the spout I3. When the partitionl 0 has passed the chute I6 the product thenremaining in the bucket compartment flows down the chute I'I into a`lower part of the spout I3. It is pointed out at this time that thisstep movement is quite rapid and that the partition I0 does not stop inthe position shown in Fig. 3, and which is only a passing position.

'I'hus the product, as it is discharged Vfromthe bucket compartment, isdivided into two streams, each of a relatively small mass which flowdown the respective chutes I6 and Il! into the spout I3 for deliveryinto the container (not shown),` placed below the restricted end ofspouttore-r ceive such product.

By splitting or dividing the product discharged -v chutes is thereaiorded.

While in describing the invention I have referred in detail to theconstruction and arrangement of the parts involved, the same is to beconsidered only in the illustrative sense and therefore I do not wish tobe limited thereto except as may be specifically set forth., in theappendedv claims. Y

I claim as my invention:

1. Weighing and packaging apparatusembody-Y partments receives a weighedamount of product tivelyl large mass single stream entering the spout.Therefore ,choking of the bottom end of the spout is avoided. Also, bydividing the dis-l charge into upper and lower streams of relativelysmall mass, the free fall effect of a largermass stream is so diminishedso that breakage of the l I1 at a to a position discharging the sametherefrom, a pluralityl of inclined chutes arranged in vertically spacedrelation and operative in the discharge of the product from said one ofsaid compartments for dividing the same into a Aplurality of owingstreams, at least one of said chutes being pivotally4 mounted, meansassociated with said one of said chutes for swinging the same about itspivot to change its inclination, and means into which said streamsdischarge for delivering the product to a predetermined position.

2. Product handling apparatus embodying therein a bucket having aplurality of compartments therein, each to receive a product batch andwhich bucket is rotatable about a horizontal axis from a batch receivingto a batch dumping position for each of said compartments, means havingbatch receivingk and discharge ends, and a plurality of verticallyspacedtroughs disposed between said bucket and the product receiving endof said means and arranged with their upper and lower ends at differentelevations and at that inclination providing a gravity flow of theproduct thereon, the upper end of each trough being positioned each toreceive a portion of each product batch from each compartment as itmoves to dumping position, the lower end of each trough being disposedto direct each batch portion thereon individually into the productreceiving end of said means.

LOUIS R. MUSKAT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in th iileY ofthis patent:` Y

y UNITED sTATEs PATENTS Number Wolf Nov. 16, 1943

